Let’s swap places in Soller this week Written by Shirley Roberts Photographs by Rachel Fox Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 6th December 2016 This weekend is the ‘Puente’ and for those who do not know what it means, this is an explanation. ‘A puente (Spanish for bridge) is a holiday in Spain, it is the…
Shirley Roberts All business minds in Mallorca are in a whirl this week. Our delegates to the World Travel Market in London are talking the talk of the delights of Mallorca. They are consolidating the ‘Brand’ they have been working on for months and in some cases, years. Sixty years ago when tourism grew, the…
ICE COLD IN SOLLER The history of Soller is fascinating to me and the archive material now becoming available changes the face of the story of Soller as I understood it. The tales of dependence on the orange and olives and how their failure over a couple of years led to the mass migration of…
Ronald was an adventurer from the Netherlands. I say was, because these days he is to be found in downtown Soller living a busy productive life. Even adventurers have to find their place in the universe in the end. He left his native Netherlands when he was 23 and headed for the world of South…
I was transported into another world this week. One of female empowerment and the benefits of dance. One of the newest incomers to make a splash in the Soller Valley is Wendy Buonaventura and from her fabulous terrace with its 360 degree view of the Tramuntana mountains we had a dip into her fascinating life….
My story today begins in Denmark in 1950 with a man who was a revolutionary in so many ways. Elif Krogager was a man of the cloth – a Pastor, a resistance fighter and an entrepreneur. His work with the Danish people after the war made him realise that they were a depressed nation that…
It’s all about the ‘Brand’ in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily BulletinTuesday 30th September 2014Photograph of Soller’s cobbled streets by Rachel Fox The marketing people are ever with us in fact I am one myself so I have a little understanding. To create ‘Team GB’ before the Olympics took years and expensive PR people…
The hills are alive in the Soller Valley Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 5th May 2015 Photographs by RACHEL FOX There is a whole world that lives in our mountains and I am not just talking about the sheep and goats. On first sight it is not easy to see the paths and…
The good, the bad and the ugly in Soller Published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin Tuesday 7th April 2015Photographs by Rachel Fox As the swallows return to the Soller Valley the residents brace themselves to answer their questions. It seems to be a fact of life that when our many friends return to whence they came…
Written by Shirley Roberts I feel I am a lone voice for the Northern Irish Tourist Board. I have recently returned from an August week’s adventure there, in which I was one of very few visitors. How was it possible to drive the Ards Peninsular, alongside vast empty beaches and seal colonies and be the…
